Throughout mythology, the lynx is fabled for not only its elusive behavior, but also, for its ability to see and perceive what others might miss. Its eyesight is so keen that the lynx can see underground and because of this, it has been entrusted as the keeper of the most important secrets of nature.  These secrets are not necessarily unknown to the rest of the natural world, but only unobserved and lost upon everyday people. 

Living in urban and suburban societies, nature becomes what is outside the door – often far from the pastoral ideal of grassy slopes and bubbling streams, and more often, the concrete streets and alley ways, littered with discarded objects, after usefulness or beauty has faded in the eye of its beholder.  This includes not only scraps of papers and textiles, but metals, wood, and ceramics, tossed away and left to disappear beneath or beside the unseeing footsteps of pedestrians.  

The artist, though, becomes the lynx, searching out these items that are not necessarily unknown, only largely ignored and devalued.  The artist finds this world of secrets open to her, when she, walking down a street, is amazed by the hundreds of pennies waiting to be noticed, by the sections of wires now curled into spirals, by the abandoned hardware with a fine layer of rust.  Each of these is constructed and crafted intentionally, making each a feat of design.  All it takes is someone with the eyes to see beyond the surface.   

Thus, this body of work serves as the “lynx” between worlds – bringing together people with what they have abandoned, to allow them to see afresh the natural world.  Like the lynx, the artist recognizes the natural world around her, even what is considered “waste,” sees its potential and beauty, and creates a space for it to be highlighted.  These found objects, in combination with color and texture on canvas, provide the space for them to be seen, in all their intricacy.  Even more, their arrangement in patterns that mimic nature, such as phyllotaxis, lends them a recognizable beauty when seen by the human eye.  Thus, there is a constant interplay between the natural and the constructed, but in this combination, the boundaries between the two blur; when the artist presents it.

Art, nature, architecture, design, and waste become one.